Chapter XVII

1And they took
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Gk.a adds ‘and brought’.
me to a place where they
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GMQ Gk.a ‘those who were there’.
were like burning fire, and, when they wished, they made themselves look like men.
2And they
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So G Gk.a: all other Eth. MSS ‘he’.
led me to a place of storm,
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Gk.a ‘to a dark place’.
and to a mountain the tip of
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the tip of: Gk.a om.
whose summit reached to heaven. 3And I saw lighted places
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MQD′ ‘the places of light’; G corrupt; Gk.a ‘the place of the lights’.
and thunder
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and thunder: Gk.a ‘and the storehouses of the stars and of the thunder’.
in the outermost ends, in its depths,
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in the outermost … depths: Gk.a ‘and in the depths of air’; GMQT1UD′AK Gk.a add ‘where were’.
a bow of fire and arrows and their quivers, and a sword of fire,
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and a sword of fire: Gk.a om.
and all the flashes of lightning. 4And they took me to the water of life,
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GQTUD′ ‘the waters of life’; M corrupt; Gk.a ‘the living waters’.
as it is called,
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as it is called: Gk.a om.
and to the fire of the west which receives
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Gk.a (corrupt) ‘produces’.
every setting of the sun. 5And I
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Gk.a ‘we’.
came to a river of fire whose fire flows like water and pours out into the great sea which is towards the west.
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which is towards the west: Gka ‘of the west’.
6And I saw all
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MQU Gk.a om.
the great rivers, and I reached the great
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Gk.a adds ‘river and the great’.
darkness and went where all
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Gk.a ‘no’.
flesh walks. 7And I saw the mountains
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Gk.a ‘the winds’.
of the darkness of winter and the place where the water of all the deep pours out.
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Gk.a ‘all the waters of the deep pour out’.
8And I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.